Sow seeds for fruits and flowers this week

It’s time to sow seeds for fruits and flowers this week – if you have a warm place!

Especially good days include Saturday 21st July, Sunday 22nd, Wednesday 25th through to Friday 27th July 2018

Until the full moon on Saturday 28th July 2018. [here in New Zealand]

Here in New Zealand, the weather is cool/cold. The ground is cold. This is a time to plan more and sow less until the ground warms up. Or sow under shelter, in hot-houses, tunnel-houses, conservatories, or inside somewhere light. A heat-pad [often sold at pet stores to keep pets warm] gives bottom heat needed by some seeds to germinate.

If you like experiments about when to plant for best results, a great one is to plant the same seeds in rows right beside each other [so all other conditions are identical], and label the rows with the date of planting. Then sow seeds from 1 packet at weekly intervals, each week in a new row.

This way you can see how the recommendations for best/worst seed sowing outcomes from moon-planting guides work for you. Maybe they do, and maybe they don’t.

I enjoy experimenting with such ideas – and if only I can rescue the rows from the snails and black-birds, I might even get some results to share!